Race, realism and critique : the politics of race and Afriforum v Malema in the (in)equality court

Abstract:

‘As black people we have suffered racism and ridicule for hundreds of years
under a nonsensical, brutal apartheid system. Yet today, barely 17 years
post-independence, we are being accused of being racist against those that were
racist. Everything we do and say is brought to the courts so that it can be legally
banned, just like the Shoot the Boer song, which was interpreted to suit what
the rich, white people wanted it to be. This shows that we still have not yet
transformed. Apartheid, it seems, has now been legalised. Being black and poor
seems to be a curse.’ (Letters to the Editor ‘Whites still rule’ Sunday World 18
September 2011 at 15.)
‘The one who lodges a complaint is heard, but the one who is a victim, and
who is perhaps the same one, is reduced to silence.’ (J-F Lyotard The Differend:
Phrases in Dispute (1988) 10.)